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  • Daughters of Parvati

    Women and Madness in Contemporary India

    by Sarah Pinto ...
    Series series Contemporary Ethnography
    In her role as devoted wife, the Hindu goddess Parvati is the divine embodiment of viraha, the agony of separation from one's beloved, a form of love that is also intense suffering. These contradictory emotions reflect the overlapping dissolutions of love, family, and mental health explored by Sarah Pinto in this visceral ethnography.Daughters of Parvati centers on the lives of women in different ... Read more

    Was $72.99 CAD Now $33.59 CAD

  • Daughters of Parvati

    Women and Madness in Contemporary India

    by Sarah Pinto ...
    Series series Contemporary Ethnography
    In her role as devoted wife, the Hindu goddess Parvati is the divine embodiment of viraha, the agony of separation from one's beloved, a form of love that is also intense suffering. These contradictory emotions reflect the overlapping dissolutions of love, family, and mental health explored by Sarah Pinto in this visceral ethnography.Daughters of Parvati centers on the lives of women in different ... Read more

    $72.79 CAD

  • The Doctor and Mrs. A.

    Ethics and Counter-Ethics in an Indian Dream Analysis

    by Sarah Pinto ...
    Series series Thinking from Elsewhere
    Just before India’s independence, a young Punjabi woman, ill at ease in her marriage and eager for personal and national freedom, sat down with psychiatrist Dev Satya Nand for an experiment in his new method of dream analysis. The published analysis documents a surge of emotion and reflections on sexuality, gender, marriage, ambition, trauma, and art. “Mrs. A.” (as she is known) turned to female ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • Where There Is No Midwife

    Birth and Loss in Rural India

    by Sarah Pinto ...
    Series Book 10 - Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
    In the Sitapurdistrict of Uttar Pradesh, an agricultural region with high rates of infant mortality, maternal health services are poor while family planning efforts are intensive. By following the daily lives of women in this setting, the author considers the women’s own experiences of birth and infant death, their ways of making-do, and the hierarchies they create and contend with. This book ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Places of Reconciliation

    Commemorating Indigenous History in the Heart of Melbourne

    by Sarah W Pinto ...
    Central Melbourne is filled with markers of the city's pasts. At its heart are the stories of exploration and settlement, of the so-called first to arrive, and of the building of a colony and nation. But when it comes to its Indigenous pasts, the centre of Melbourne has long been a place of silence. Over the last two decades, Indigenous histories and peoples have been brought into central ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Interdisciplinary Unsettlings of Place and Space

    Conversations, Investigations and Research

    Edited by Sarah Pinto, Shelley Hannigan, Bernadette Walker-Gibbs, Emma Charlton ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book brings together researchers from different fields, traditions and perspectives to examine the ways in which place and space might (be) unsettle(d). Researchers from across the humanities and social sciences have been drawn to the study of place and space since the 1970s, and the term ‘unsettled’ has been an occasional but recurring presence in this body of scholarship. Though it has been ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Lunatic Asylums in Colonial Bombay

    Shackled Bodies, Unchained Minds

    by Sarah Ann Pinto ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book traces the historical roots of the problems in India’s mental health care system. It accounts for indigenous experiences of the lunatic asylum in the Bombay Presidency (1793-1921). The book argues that the colonial lunatic asylum failed to assimilate into Indian society and therefore remained a failed colonial-medical enterprise. It begins by assessing the implications of lunatic asylums ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

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  • Telling Tennant's Story

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  • Anxiety

    A Philosophical Guide

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  • Indigenous Australia For Dummies

    by Larissa Behrendt ...
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  • The Book of Emotions

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    Salman Akhtar, MD is an internationally recognized psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, writer, and poet. His more than 60 books include Immigration and Identity (1999), Freud along the Ganges (2005), and Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (2009). Recipient of numerous prestigious awards, Dr Akhtar is a globally sought out speaker. He has conducted teaching workshops in many countries, including ... Read more

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